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It's hope rather than expectation for England, as Gareth Southgate will struggle to emulate his Euros run at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar with an achilles heel when it comes to beating big nations
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The morning after England lost the final of last summer’s Euros to Italy, Gareth Southgate was asked if he thought his team were too nice to win a big tournament.
It seemed an odd subject to raise after such a thrilling month but a year or so on from that night at Wembley, Southgate and his team face far more searching questions ahead of a World Cup they were once quite fancied to win.
The thing about any England team is that things are rarely quite as good — or indeed as bad — as people make out. This applied last
